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Saturday, September 21, 2013

THE HOUSE OF CHEN Chapter 19

Cheri needed to find out who
and how many people she was subservient to or what the proverbial pecking order
was.

As it turned out Morley had
no vice president or anything of that nature but instead he used a vertical
model.

Each department had their
head and they reported to Morley. He
felt this kept him aware of any problems, and could be dealt with sooner rather
than later.

The main things to be dealt
with was; one upmanship and blame shifting.

After a couple of weeks Cheri
had made gains in her knowledge of the operations of the company and its future
goals. The objectives were transient at
this stage for they were contingent upon the government’s needs and contracts
they executed.

Finally Cheri realized the
larger reason she was hired which was her contacts within the government and
her negotiating power with men.

She had mastered most all of
the feminine tactics in getting what she wanted. She always kept in mind the scene in the movie
where it was shown the exposed leg was more powerful than the thumb when
hitching a ride.

While in negotiating sessions
where they were at an impasse she knew tricks to bridge the chasm like coming
to the meeting dressed in a severe styling business suit and then when the
impasse fell into place she would remove the suit’s coat revealing much of her
shapely form.

She used a little bit of
eroticism to change the minds of the detractors. This bit of stimulus carried with it an
unstated promise of “C’mon a My House” when nothing like that was part of the
deal.

This and other feminine devices,
cemented many a deal for Cheri, and was what Morley had in mind when he hired
her.

A month after Cheri was hired
she received a call from Lee. She
started to hang up but he got in a quick plea for her to hear him out.

He said he had been let go
and needed a reference to get a new job. He said, “I would consider coming to work for
the company you work for.”

She said she didn’t think so,
and as to references she would have to tell the truth about how she felt about
him and his trustworthiness and she didn’t think that would help him.

He said, “I really need your
help because the reason I was fired will keep anyone here in Washington from considering
me for employment, but with your recommendation I could get on with someone.”

Cheri said, “You already have
my answer on the subject, I’m sorry.”

He continued and said, “After
all we meant to each other I think you should do this for me and ignore a
mistake I made.”

She said, “A final no. As for what we meant to each other you put
more stock in that than I did. Just
going out a couple of times and a kiss or to doesn’t constitute a relationship like
you seem to think we had. I do not owe
you by telling a lie for you. With your
record you should be selling used cars and she hung up.”

After she hung up the phone
she sat in the quietness and remembered back to the time she was a little fond
of Lee, but that wasn’t reason enough to help him get a position where he
couldn’t be trusted.She wasn’t willing
to put her reputation on the line for him.

A short time later she
received a letter saying Lee was going to say some bad things about her if she
didn’t help him.

She wrote back and said
do what he wished, but if he said anything bad about her she would see to it he
would be put into jail for it.